The Night in Question av Laurie Graham

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<p><b>London, the 1880s, and Jack the Ripper is at large. Two childhood friends meet again having found very different fortunes in the fog-bound, Ripper-stalked streets of Victorian London. Plain but witty Dot is a music hall star; pretty Kate (Eddowes, a true-life Ripper victim) has fallen on hard times.</b><br><br><i><b>''Poignant and unsentimental, Dot''s whipllash humour had me cheering'' DAILY MAIL</b></i><br><br>When star of London''s Victorian music hall, Dot Allbones, bumps into her childhood friend Kate Eddowes outside the Griffin theatre in Shoreditch, it''s a blast from the past. The two grew up together in the Midlands, but life has treated them very differently since then.<br><br>Told through the eyes of the irreverent Dot, this is the story of a London populated by chancers, some rich, some destitute. During one hot summer in the 1880s Whitechapel famously became the scene of unspeakable horror, and Kate Eddowes found a grisly fame that would far outshine Dot''s.<br><br>B